PT-2017-12114

CVE-2017-11576

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Published

2017-07-23

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Updated

2020-01-13

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FontForge version 20161012
Description The issue arises from a failure to ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in the readcfftopdict function, located in parsettf.c. This can lead to a denial of service (DoS) when a crafted otf file is processed.
Recommendations For FontForge version 20161012, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version does not properly validate input, leading to potential denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1979
DLA-1065-1
DSA-3958-1
MGASA-2018-0037
SUSE-SU-2019:2236-1
USN-3409-1
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